With the GECK you can normally change faces of NPCs. I'm thinking of replacing Cass' face with Sunny Smiles', who's pretty much the only good-looking female in the game apart from a custom-made courier.
I must be missing something, but the melee in two worlds 2 is... errr... nothing spectacular. at least it haven't been so far. the character isn't very responsive to comands, most of the time I just keep clicking the left mouse button because there's no way to apply tactics while attacking, I get surrounded all the time. I hope it gets better as you level up and find new skill books. and then there's Dragon Age-style slo-mo kills
gotta give credit to the developers, though. at least they tried to make it complex and interesting. but mob placement ruined it (unless they had a jack-of-all-trades character in mind when designing dungeons)
There's that whirlwind attack for melee. What I like is that sometimes mobs are positioned in such a way that sneak kills are actually possible, unlike in the first game.
It's a good game, much better than the first, but I put it on hold for a FO:NV replay. I'm about 8 hours in.
If TES V introduces a similar melee system, it will be heaven.
Jade Empire is an original setting (albeit it smells a lot of Kara-Tur), has no ancient evil and no Save The World! plot (you can also "lose" in the end). It even has a personal storyline. Combat is Dynasty Warriors like and pretty fun. Hence, I cannot call it bad.
Shivering Isles was a satisfying conclusion to the Oblivion franchise. It was a nice way of getting the Champion of Cyrodiil out of the picture by making him/her a Daedric Lord. Not to mention being able to change the weather by just the wave of a hand was pretty neat.
It certainly beats the whole "I heard the Nerevarine went to Akavir" crap.
I finished Gray Matter. Best story-driven adventure game since Syberia 2... but it really should've come out at least four years ago.
Hopefully there will be sequels.
I think Martin was the only bastard born from an Imperial woman. There's probably a whole drove of little Septim Nords & Bretons. Maybe even Dunmer.
There were rumours that TES V would take place in Skyrim, hence a storyline about tracking the Septim bloodlines and investigating Tiber Septim's origins would be logical.